Tag Archives: Lehrbücher

Drei Gründe für Französisch

Posted on 3. November 2013 by schaefew

Drei Gründe sprachen für das Erlernen des Französischen: Nutzen, Bildung, Distinktion. Nützlich war es vor allem für Händler, die ihre Waren in anderen Teilen Europas verkaufen wollten. Schon im 14. Jahrhundert gab es Bücher mit Sätzen und Ausdrücken für Alltagssituationen, … Continue reading →

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Learning to use vs. using to learn

Posted on 8. December 2012 by schaefew

There is, in a sense, a ‘strong’ version of communicative language teaching, much closer to the original proposals than the ‘weak’ version now largely accepted by teachers and textbook writers. In the ‘weak’ version, communicative activities have been accepted as … Continue reading →

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Foreign beasts and serpents

Posted on 29. October 2012 by schaefew

John Florio, a language teacher in Tudor England, was a fluent bilingual speaker of English and Italian, although he probably never went to Italy. One of the strands in Florio’s work is his dislike of England. This seems to have … Continue reading →

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No English, please!

Posted on 29. October 2012 by schaefew

Claude de Sainliens alias Claudius Holyband is considered to be the most professional of the language teachers and textbooks writers of the Tudor period in England. He opened several schools in London where he himself taught French (and the standard … Continue reading →

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Houey dou you not pout on yor choùs?

Posted on 25. October 2012 by schaefew

The earliest extant manual specifically designed to teach English as a foreign language, The English Schoolmaster (1580), was written by a Frenchman! The book, like others of its time, was written to help French Huguenot exiles in England, who had … Continue reading →

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